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Patented lan. 25, I881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IRA B. FOX, OF AURORA, AND ISAIAH O. BURGETT, OF SOUTH ELGIN, ILL.

RAILWAY CHAIR AND SPLICE-BAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,883, dated January 25, 1881.

Application filed December 6, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, IRA B. FOX, of Aurora, and ISAIAH G. BURGET'I, of South Elgin, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Railway Chair and Splice-Bar; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our improvements consist in a novel construction of a railroad chair and splice-bar, all made in one piece, and which, while passing beneath the ends of two adjacent rails, also at its outer side extends up and around the edge of the rail and nearly to the center of the rail, the portion which is at the edge of the rail beingmade much thicker than the other part, all as more particularly to be described.

Figure l is a perspective view of our improved device applied to the rails; Fig. 2, a cross-section through Fig. l, but on a larger scale; and Fig. 3, a perspective view of my device before the same has been applied to a rail.

A A represent the ends of two railway-rails connected by our improved device, (marked B,) adapted to a T-rail, by way of illustration, although, without any departure from the principle or spirit of our invention, the invention is adaptable for rails of any ordinary construction. The part B is made thin almost throughout,.and is intended to conform to and to fit quite snugly to the rail, and its thin inner side, 0, extends about up to the line of 40 junction of the web at of the rail with its top e.

The outer thin side, f, however, extends up beyond such line of junction and around the outer edge of the rail, and thence nearly to the center of the rail on its top, and is quite thin atits edge. That portion, g, which spans the outer edge of the rail is made, as shown, very thick. This thickness at this part gives great strength and durability where it is needed, and the thinner portion overlying the rail helps to carry the wheel easily over the rail-joint, and also prevents the joint from being injured, pounded out, and laminated by the wheels. The portion which passes around the edges of the flanges h h of the rails is provided with notches or slots it to receive spikes, and these flanges, therefore, need not be impaired by cutting any such spike-slots in them, because there is material enough in this retroverted or doubled part to permit the requisite notches to be made therein.

By reason of the thick portion 9 the rails are held firmly at the joints, and when the device is applied to the rails, as shown, by means of bolts j j and nuts 70, there is sufiicient spring outward of the thin metal so held to form the very best kind of nut-lock, so that check-nuts are not required.

Our new manner of construction also affords a much safer device than any splice-bar known to us.

Our improvement is adaptable, as before stated, for any kind or pattern of rail; but of course it must be made to fit the rail, the essential conditions being that it have the thin portions 0 and f at the sides and the thick swell g made as shown and described.

In practice the tie or support should be placed about eight inches on each side. of the rail-joint, thus giving the joint just elasticity enough to prevent the ends of the rails from being laminated.

We claim- The combined chair and splice-bar described, made in a single piece, with a continuous thin portion to fit both sides of the web and flanges of the rail, and with the outer side terminating in the thick portion g, adapted to extend up and around and upon the top of the rail, as shown, and for the purposes set forth.

IRA B. FOX. ISAIAH (J. BURGETT.

Witnesses:

E. T. PRINDLE, R. B. GATES. 

